Las Isla roadcut, stage 2 (Pliocene to of Costa Rica)

Also known as Reef 3597

Where: Costa Rica (10.0° N, 83.1° W: paleocoordinates 9.9° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Buenos Aires Reef Member (Quebrada Chocolate Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene to Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• 3.7-3.6 Ma, late Early-early Late Pliocene

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; siliciclastic sediments

• siliciclastics (silt to sand) with abundant benthic foraminifers

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Bauch, J. J. G. Reijmer, D. F. McNeill and P. Schäfer. 2011. Development of a Pliocene mixed-carbonate siliciclastic reef (Limon, Costa Rica). Sedimentary Geology 239:37-47 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 198247: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 11.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Trigoniocardia biangulata" = Ctenocardia biangulata
"Trigoniocardia biangulata" = Ctenocardia biangulata Broderip and Sowerby 1829 cockle
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione sp.
Chione sp. von Mühlfield 1811 venus clam
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Acropora palmata
Acropora palmata Lamarck 1816 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp.
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea
"Montastrea sp." = Montastraea Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea sp.
Isastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Diploria sp., Mycetophyllia danaana
Diploria sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Mycetophyllia danaana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral